Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Yes.  In fact, the forum guidelines prohibit exhortations such as that by A45WG. Dave  AB7E On 9/16/2018 1:52 PM, Gwen Patton wrote: Somehow, I think the founder of Elecraft can decide what is appropriate to post on the Elecraft mailing list. 😁 On Sun, Sep 16, 2018, 3:08 PM Carl Yaffey wr

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Somehow, I think the founder of Elecraft can decide what is appropriate to post on the Elecraft mailing list. 😁 On Sun, Sep 16, 2018, 3:08 PM Carl Yaffey wrote: > I was going to post about working rare DX with a KW to a wet noodle but > thought better of it. Hi hi > > > > On Sep 16, 2018, at 2:4

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

I was going to post about working rare DX with a KW to a wet noodle but thought better of it. Hi hi > On Sep 16, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Wes Stewart wrote: > > This is a support group. This subject was more-or-less initiated by Wayne. > > On 9/16/2018 3:43 AM, a45wg wrote: >> Please ENOUGH of this

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

This is a support group.  This subject was more-or-less initiated by Wayne. On 9/16/2018 3:43 AM, a45wg wrote: Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mai

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hoste

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Two bits- I was on 40 M CW one night and heard a rather loud CQ from ‘W7CQR’ (my call is N7CQR). So naturally I responded because it’s unusual to work anyone with your same suffix. It turned out that not only was he in my town, but that we were friends from many years past when we played music t

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

The QSO that sticks in my mind was back in 1971, I was at college with Cable and Wireless in Camborne, Cornwall and the main engineering college was at Porthcurno.  I was the social secretary for my group (about 30) and my job was to coordinate with the college to get a bus to take us to the mo

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

The one that comes to mind was via OSCAR III in 1970.  Just married, we lived in an apartment, not ideal for sat comms.  My 2 meter rig was a WW2 AM aircraft transmitter with an 832 (dual tetrode) push pull as the final.  Of course, not designed for CW. mode conversion did not look easy.  I bro

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

orld, top US and a USA record score. Pete, W1RM w...@comcast.net -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 8:46 PM To: Elecraft ; KX3 Subject: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs 15 meters never fail

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

As Wayne noted - there is still some RF (Propagation) magic left. I enjoyed a short SSB QSO today from ZL with K6JL (Terry). And while I am sure Terry’s station was doing a lot (all) of the hard work- the station at this end made it a lot of fun - new K2 built a few months ago running around 13

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

I've never indicated I was of sound mind. Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > > While many people talk to themselves, most do it privately and not in a > setting where half of the planet can hear them. [:-) > > 73, > > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW >

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My first time hearing my echos was pretty thrilling too.  So was working W5LFL in Columbia and having him say, "N7WS, the loudest signal we've heard in the spacecraft" and then later getting to meet him in person. Wes  N7WS  On 9/14/2018 2:27 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: Mine was the first time

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While many people talk to themselves, most do it privately and not in a setting where half of the planet can hear them. [:-) 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County On 9/14/2018 2:27 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: Mine was the first time I transmitted my call with the antenna array

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I have his card for a 10 meter QSO on 5 March 1972 (my dad's 65th birthday). Wes  N7WS .  On 9/14/2018 2:48 PM, Ted Bryant wrote: I have one wall of my shack covered with QSL cards from all over the world. One particular card is from 7Q7AA in Malawi for a QSO in 1971. Many of you may have wor

[Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

I have one wall of my shack covered with QSL cards from all over the world. One particular card is from 7Q7AA in Malawi for a QSO in 1971. Many of you may have worked him. One day I just happened to pay attention to the small print at the bottom of the card. It noted the operator: B. J. "Tony"

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

 First real DX for the new ham. Mel, K6KBE From: Bob Nielsen - N7XY To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have: A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 met

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Nielsen - N7XY Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 17:01 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have: A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in California. The ONLY signal I could hear o

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Mine was the first time I transmitted my call with the antenna array aimed at the moon, switched to receive, adjusted the VFO frequency a bit, and heard my own call come back.   Yep, some 2.56 seconds delay, a frequency shift of about -200 Hz due to Doppler, and from a distance of  239,000 mile

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The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have: A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in California.  The ONLY signal I could hear on the entire band was from a beacon station on Reunion Island, very copyable. 73, Bob N7XY ___

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In the late 1970s my wife and I came home from a party about midnight. I decided to listen to the ham bands a bit, and I heard a call from Guyana. I called and worked them. We later exchanged QSL cards. Several years later while driving to work I suddenly remembered the QSO and the events tha

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

"You always remember your first." :-) My first DX contact as a 16-yr old Novice in August of 1970, was on 15 meter CW (rockbound of course, I still have the 3rd-overtone 7 MHz crystal) with LU2DAW, an Argentinian who turned out to be a retired railroad radio operator, who had done CW professionall

[Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

For me it was working VK0TH, Trevor, on Macquarie Island on PSK31. My yagi was down for repairs, so all I had was a 20M dipole as a sloper with the high end at about 20'. 20m was 'dead', or so I thought, then his trace appeared. He came back to my first call. Amazing!! I was only running

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Rather apropos to the current season, I remember a particularly rewarding QSO that I had a couple of years ago during a severe linear windstorm (derecho?). Our mains power had been out for about 18 hours. I fired up my KX1 (on internal batteries, it reported a mighty 1.8 watts into my OCF up 15

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One of mine: http://dokufunk.org/amateur_radio/dxcc_entities/index.php?CID=4728&lang=EN&ID=4758#A4758 73 - Steve WB6RSE __ Elecraft mailing list

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Joe, my good 1958 memories include working a JA on 6M AM with my home-brew EMT ground plane, GlobeScout 680A, SX-99 and convertor. Like all the other comments I never considered conditions changing. I had a 10M AM rig in my first car, in 1959, and worked the world on 29.6 AM. In fact I met the

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

About 4pm one afternoon in New Jersey, I heard an Egyptian station in QSO with a W8 on 20 meters. I waited to pounce, because I had never even heard Egypt before. But then the W8 asked him to "try 40," and the Egyptian immediately QSYed. I despaired. Although I only had 40 watts, I had a 2-elem

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

In the 80's I held a license for VHF/UHF only, like a novice license. I had just taken down my 21 element UHF and 10 element VHF antennas and elevation rotator for satellite work and replaced them with a 4*10 element yagi array for 2m dx. Tuned around the ssb part of the 2m-band and heard n

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

-Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:52 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs You should have been a teen in the

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

While there have been many interesting QSO's since I was licensed in 1968(age 16), the one that stands out was on a Saturday morning in 1969. I was cleaning my bedroom, and since my radio was in there, I had it on tuned to the 15 meter cw band while doing my chore. A weak station started calling cq

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

On March 27 this year, I heard V31VP on 20M RTTY. I was getting ready to call him with my amp, but I heard him come back to my test transmission at 1.4 watts. We completed the QSO. Indeed, as David AB7E says, "Propagation is a strange and fickle mistress." 73 Bill AE6JV On 9/13/18 at 5:45 PM,

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A couple come to mind but one stands out.  Without digging out dozens of old paper logs I'll guess about 1982-83 I was on 2M EME pointed west to my setting moon looking for JA or UA9.  I heard a CQ and copied W5UN.  I'd worked Dave many times, even on 2XSSB so I continued to tune.  A few hundred

Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:53 PM Fred Jensen wrote: > You should have been a teen in the run-up to Cycle 19... = Ain't that the truth. I had a homebrew Tx and a Hallicrafters SX-96 in 1957 and 1958 as a novice (KN0LTB). I had a pretty good antenna and 15 meters was open nearly all

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Mine was rather recent, early 2014 to be exact and with the Amsterdam Island expedition that year. I had worked them on some other bands and then on Saturday morning, 08 Feb, I saw they were spotted on 80m. 80m? That's half a world away and all I had was a doublet up about 20 feet that measured b

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You should have been a teen in the run-up to Cycle 19 in the 50's, Wayne.  I can't imagine what a K could have done.  Our prehistoric gear was actually doing amazing things then.  Other than Field Day, field operations, SOTA, Parks, IOTA and the like hadn't been invented. HF mobile was big, VHF

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I've had my share of weird ones, but one that sticks in my mind was during Field Day several years ago.  I'm not sure, but I think I was using my new K1 that year.  Bob, K7ZB and I were operating up on the Mogollon Rim of Arizona, and one of the antennas I was checking out the night before th

[Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

15 meters never fails to amaze me. During a recent bout of paper log archaeology, I rediscovered a QSO I logged as a teen, in 1972. I was just minding my own business, tuning up using a Heath DX-20 driving 3 feet of coax to a 40 W incandescent bulb. Then a guy in Illinois called me Some y